This paper investigates the effects of using dismissal taxes to finance unemployment benefits. We compare dismissal and … account the effects their dismissal decisions have on others. By introducing dismissal taxes to finance unemployment insurance …, these externalities can partly be internalized. Taking into account the budget of the unemployment insurance, employment …

fighting unemployment, increasing the level of severance payments can increase employment for small judicial mistakes and …

on their interactions with the profile of unemployment benefits and with active labor market programs. …

rent created by skill formation. Furthermore, it will be shown that high-skilled workers face shorter unemployment duration …

rent created by skill formation. Furthermore, it will be shown that high-skilled workers face shorter unemployment duration …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

's skill level. We establish that, for young workers, unemployment incidence increases with skill in high-firing-tax countries … maintaining unemployment duration and the unemployment rate as decreasing functions of skill in all countries. Because of constant …

In this paper, we present a matching model with adverse selection that explains why flows into and out of unemployment …

labour market institutions (e.g. unemployment benefits, job security legislation and payroll taxes) have complementary … effects on unemployment; and thus (b) that policies aimed at reforming these institutions are also complementary. These policy …) is unlikely to achieve significant reductions in unemployment. Rather, labour market reform becomes particularly …